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IRELAND

Members of the public bracing the high winds at Poolbeg Lighthouse. Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

• The Taoiseach has promised ‘clarity’ soon on the upcoming election date as Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman called for 29 November.
• A Status Orange wind warning has been put in place by Met Éireann for counties Galway and Mayo on Sunday while a Status Yellow warning will be in place for other counties.
• Gardaí believe a stabbing incident in a Tipperary town in which four people were injured, two of which were stabbed, is linked to a local feud. 
• A Northern Irish man who posed as a teenage girl on Snapchat and persuaded vulnerable teenage girls he befriended to send him sexual pictures, which he used to blackmail them, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after one of his victims took her own life. 
• Gardaí investigating terrorist financing operations for an Islamic terror group have carried out searches at three address across the south and east of the country, seizing electronics and €100,000 in cash in various currencies.
• A man in his 90s died after being struck by a car in a supermarket carpark in Fermoy, Co Cork this morning. 
• Former Fine Gael TD Noel Rock has announced that he will seek the Fine Gael nomination to contest the next general election.
• Former Fulham Ladies captain and Irish international Ronnie Gibbons has alleged she was twice sexually assaulted by the club’s late owner Mohamed Al Fayed.

INTERNATIONAL  

People take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration against the visit of US President Joe Biden, at Alexanderplatz in Berlin today. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#GAZA: New details have emerged about how Israeli soldiers killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Wednesday.

#BERLIN: As Western leaders gather in Berlin, two topics dominate conversation: Ukraine, Gaza. Biden says Sinwar’s death offers hope of a “path to peace”. This hope seems unlikely.

#UNITED STATES: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris held competing rallies in the key US state of Michigan on Friday, as the race for the presidency continues. 

PARTING SHOT

Trinity College Dublin this evening, lit up in climate stripes.

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN has this evening been lit up in Ireland’s climate stripes as part of Climate and Biodiversity Action Week. 

Trinity’s Chair of Climate Science, Professor Karen Wiltshire, explained that the stripes represent the change in Irish air temperature as a function of time.

“We at Trinity are networking our expertise with our colleagues, policy makers and public stakeholders throughout Ireland and internationally to ensure excellence and maximum effect. Together we have the knowledge and solutions for a resilient Irish future,” Wiltshire wrote ahead of the event.